The series revisits one of psychology’s most notorious experiments, but its producers’ efforts to manufacture conflict undermine the question the show claims to examine.

Netflix is preparing to launch a major documentary series about Russell Brand. The streamer will spotlight Brand after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault last week, Deadline reports. Brand has started a sentence of 10 years and six months in prison. The documentary is expected to be confirmed this week, the outlet reports.

It is one of the most notorious social experiments ever conducted, inspiring numerous films, documentaries and psychological studies. In August of 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited 24 male college students to participate in a ...